My wife tells me I'm not a true Southerner, and she might be right. I grew up and lived most of my life in Texas. In Texas schools, and Texas in general, we don't dwell on the fact that we joined 10 other states to fight a war to secede from the United States. You do see a few folks with the Stars and Bars in east Texas -- east of an imaginary line from Dallas to Houston -- but for the most part, Texans think of themselves as, well, Texans, and really don't think much of the War Between the States.
Thus, I'm sure my wife is right. But I just gotta comment on the possibility of "Confederate History Month."
Hmmm, let's see what will be studied:
- The fact that the "Southern Belle" couldn't exist without slave labor doing all the house work.
- The fact that "Southern Gentlemen" couldn't exist without slave labor working in the fields.
- The fact that the entire "Southern Culture" they are wanting to study and preserve is only possible with slave labor.
- The fact that, in order to preserve slavery, they started a war that became the deadliest war in our history.
